Movies like The Stronghold (2021)
The best movies like The Stronghold (2021) are Mea Culpa (2014), Nothing to Declare (2010) and Ca$h (2008). If The Stronghold hooked you with its thriller and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPolisse (2011)7.7/10 from 1,338 votes
- NewestLast Bullet (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchMea Culpa (2014)Also in French
Mea Culpa (2014)
Franck and Simon are both good cops. They work as partners. But their lives take a tailspin when Simon, driving drunk, causes a tragic car wreck. A few years later, out of the police, he is forced to take matters into his own hands when his family is in danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNothing to Declare (2010)
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisCa$h (2008)
A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisNight Shift (2020)
Three officers are tasked with escorting an illegal immigrant to Charles de Gaulle airport, where he will be forced onto a plane and sent back to his homeland. But when they find out about the truth, they have to make a difficult choice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisLes Misérables (2019)
Stéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Squad in Montfermeil, in the suburbs of Paris, France, where Victor Hugo set his famed novel “Les Miserables”. Alongside his new colleagues Chris and Gwada – both experienced members of the team – he quickly discovers tensions running high between local gangs. When the trio finds themselves overrun during the course of an arrest, a drone captures the encounter, threatening to expose the reality of everyday life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRestless (2022)
After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a mysterious witness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPoint Blank (2010)
Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurn Out (2018)
Tony, a promising young motorcycle racer, is forced to do perilous drug runs to save the mother of his child from a dangerous mobster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRogue City (2020)
Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLost Bullet 2 (2022)
Having cleared his name, genius mechanic Lino has only one goal in mind: getting revenge on the corrupt cops who killed his brother and his mentor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParadise Beach (2019)
A team of former robbers arrived at Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Now traders, they are happy days. Until the day when the devil arrives: Mehdi, sentenced to 15 years in prison during the robbery, comes to recover his share of the cake.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisCarbone (2017)
In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe World Is Yours (2018)
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOh Mercy (2019)
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered on Christmas Eve. However, in a neighborhood rife with crime, everyone seems to be a suspect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Connection (2014)
Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEarth and Blood (2020)
A sawmill owner and his teenage daughter become tangled in a deadly feud when a drug dealer stashes stolen cocaine on their remote property.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGTMAX (2024)
When a notorious gang of bikers recruits her brother for a heist, a former motocross champion must face her deepest fears to keep her family safe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLost Bullet (2020)
A small time delinquent, turned police mechanic for a go fast task force, is forced to defend his innocence when his mentor is killed by dirty cops.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSentinelle (2023)
François Sentinelle has two lives. By day, he is the most famous cop of Réunion Island, known for his tough methods and flowery shirts, pursuing criminals in his famous yellow defender. But the rest of the time, Sentinelle is also a charming singer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisGold Brick (2023)
Determined to even the scales and profit from his thankless job, a factory worker schemes to traffic luxury perfumes from under his employer's nose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like this36th Precinct (2004)
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPolisse (2011)
Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer commissioned to graphically document the daily routine of the team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLast Bullet (2025)
Car genius Lino returns to conclude his vendetta against Areski and the corrupt commander who ruined their lives in this turbo-charged trilogy finale.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFive (2016)
A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Wages of Fear (2024)
When an explosion at an oil well threatens hundreds of lives, a crack team is called upon to make a deadly desert crossing with nitroglycerine in tow.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNice Girls (2024)
A maverick cop and a meticulous detective join forces with a charming ex-hacker to solve an officer's disappearance and save Nice from disaster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Squad: Home Run (2023)
Former Antigang legend Niels Cartier, known for his muscular and unconventional methods, left the force following an intervention that went wrong and led to the death of his wife. When the gang of bank robbers responsible for her death reappears eight years later, Niels won't let anyone stand in his way to seek revenge. Even if it means forming an explosive duo with his temperamental 14-year-old daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOn the Other Side of the Tracks (2012)
Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Deadly Mission (2008)
A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Stronghold?
The closest matches to The Stronghold are Mea Culpa (2014), Nothing to Declare (2010) and Ca$h (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Stronghold?
People who watched The Stronghold most often go on to Mea Culpa (2014), Nothing to Declare (2010) and Ca$h (2008).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Stronghold?
Polisse (2011), rated 7.7/10 by 1,338 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Stronghold?
Last Bullet (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Stronghold?
Yes: Mea Culpa (2014), Nothing to Declare (2010) and Ca$h (2008).
How are movies similar to The Stronghold chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Stronghold, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.